eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

To close knowledge gaps and support every student, IXL equips Missouri educators with its award-winning PK-5 ELA curriculum, which personalizes learning and is grounded in the Science of Reading methodology. About IXL Currently used by 16 million students and in 96 of the top 100 U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2019

Access to quality content is undeniably important, but as Lemma Shomali, Director of K-12 Products at Gale , a Cengage company, explains, “We have to go beyond ‘Here is a stockpile of interesting materials to use in your curriculum. EdSurge: How can integrating content directly into curriculum support teachers?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

BUDAPEST/LOS ANGELES (October 1, 2021) – An acclaimed and multi award-winning English As A Second Language (ESL)appin daily use with over 20,000 classrooms across Europe is launching in the US. BOOKR Class presents storybooks in a highly engaging format to focus on reading in English. Experiential learning is the future of education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

IXL skills also match popular textbooks used in the state, helping teachers easily incorporate IXL’s curriculum into daily lessons. school districts, IXL is an all-inclusive educational platform that provides a comprehensive PK-12 curriculum and instructional resources, actionable analytics and a state-of-the-art assessment suite.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Discovery Education–the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources and professional learning for K-12 classrooms–today introduced update s to the award-winning Discovery Education Experience platform designed to support educators and students in distance and hybrid learning environment s. Pinterest. .

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

For the last few years, this enterprising duo has been flipping their English classes, co-moderating a weekly Twitter education chat, presenting at conferences, planning lessons, and collaborating regularly from opposite sides of the country. Thomasson, who teaches English at Forestview High School in Gastonia, N.C.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. Taking Textbooks Online: Rowan Cabarrus Community College. Taking Textbooks Online: Rowan Cabarrus Community College. And it’s a good thing she did.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

A trip to Hiroshima, Japan early in his teaching career set Eric Westendorf on a path to revolutionize curriculum. “I But what resonated most with Westendorf was the way educators approached curriculum. So over time, the curriculum gets better and better. Curriculum-as-a-service—that’s a new term. It was fascinating.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

— IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 13 million students, announced that the Pennsylvania Evidence Resource Center (ERC) has added IXL Math and IXL English Language Arts (ELA) to its list of evidence-based resources. ” How Pennsylvania educators use IXL’s award-winning platform.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

For any educational institution, adopting the best curriculum available is one of the most important precursors to ensuring the highest-quality teaching and most effective learning. The current analog curriculum procurement process is outdated and inefficient. The process must be made less complex.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by more than 12 million students, announced that the IXL platform won two SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Advanced Mathematics and Best Foundational English Language Arts (ELA) categories. SAN MATEO, Calif.,

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. Science Techbook for middle school can be used in either Spanish or English. Discovery Education is also launching an updated version of STEM Connect.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year. The district provides a personal iPad for every teacher, middle and high school student, and teachers’ lessons include a mix of purchased and free online resources.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

“Curriculum is becoming commoditized.” That can give them pause when it comes to investing in propriety K-12 curriculum products. That can give them pause when it comes to investing in propriety K-12 curriculum products. With OERs, educators can become curriculum makers. And he’s not alone.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Teacher-directed Instructional Model In this model, teachers create the curriculum themselves. Suppose Ella is working on 9th-grade English as a 10-year-old. More than three-quarters (77 percent) of teachers who relied on curriculum outside of textbooks created their own materials in 2023, and that pattern is likely to continue.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2016

Educators are increasing integration and creative adoption by using popular digital content in a variety of innovative ways, including using digital novel sets for English language arts classes. The district is now in the third year of a one-to-one Chromebook program roll out. “The Book Thief” (Random House Children’s Books).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

When coding shows up in the curriculum of a liberal arts program, its primary purpose is usually pretty obvious: help students get hired. These efforts are often described as attempts to “ help non-computer science students build the tech skills required for today’s jobs ” so that they are ultimately “ more employable. ” Anderson says.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Mandarin Chinese is challenging on many levels for English speakers,” says H. To put it another way, to gain the same proficiency level in Spanish would require 24 weeks, according to the FSI, whose website includes Mandarin on its list of “super-hard languages” for native English speakers, along with Arabic, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2021

SplashLearn’s game-based learning platform—available in 150+ countries and already used by more than 40 million children—features thousands of research-informed games aimed at instructing young learners in English language arts and math. We are also going to use this funding to expand our English language arts program. How-To Videos.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

When we devalue the subject areas on the margins of our state-mandated curriculum, we fail to recognize the full range of skills students need for a well-rounded education. Speaking Arabic and English has allowed me to connect with people from various backgrounds, enhancing my professional network and expanding my job prospects.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Curriculum Companion Wikis (K-5 only) follow a tech professional as s/he teaches each lesson in the SL K-5 curriculum textbooks. Presented via video (10-15 minutes each), you can ask questions, start a discussion with other teachers using the curriculum, and access additional resources. Language: English.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Global publisher Macmillan Education partners with Blinklearning to help teachers, students access digital textbooks and other resources. Macmillan Education will expand its next-generation digital services by collaborating with Blinklearning, drawing on its technical expertise in delivering educational digital content.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The State Board of Education’s adoption of Virginia Discovery Education Science Experience empowers the state’s school systems to purchase and integrate this innovative digital curriculum into teaching and learning. Virginia Discovery Education Science Experience is aligned to Virginia’s 2018 Standards of Learning. About Discovery Education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 11, 2015

Curriculum Companion Wikis (K-5 only) follow a tech professional as s/he teaches each lesson in the SL K-5 curriculum textbooks. Presented via video (10-15 minutes each), you can ask questions, start a discussion with other teachers using the curriculum, and access additional resources. Language: English.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

One of the most active acquirers of K-12 digital curriculum tools says it is opening a new chapter. In an interview with EdSurge, Weld North Education CEO and chairman Jonathan Grayer said this marks its first deal involving a digital core curriculum provider. based company that sells core curricula. LearnZillion had raised $32.5

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. About Discovery Education Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

“We are being flooded with requests for assistance on how to develop effective and engaging remote learning experiences, especially after the first or second week in which schools try to transfer their normal curriculum to an online format and parents and teachers realize it doesn’t work,” he says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Students didn’t like the traditional textbook-and-worksheet-centric course, and their teachers and district staff were concerned that a lack of engagement was translating into lower grades at Canada’s Ottawa Catholic School Board’s (OCSB) high schools. Grade 9 Geography was in trouble.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

The new Reading Horizons Accelerate platform fully integrates with and supports the digital curriculums for Reading Horizons Discovery (K-3) and Reading Horizons Elevate (Grades 4-12), making implementation simple, sustainable, and successful.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We have to build our own curriculum,” says Col. We can’t just use a college textbook, we go through it so fast.” 1st Class Rebecca Babcock, chief military language instructor for the undergraduate Persian Farsi program who also leads the military studies curriculum revision program. Gary Hausman, who runs the institute. “We

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says. Often routine textbook readings aren’t graded, she says, so a student likely won’t prioritize it. A few weeks later, the students went back to the same park and noted the difference in the animals and plant life.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Schools are no longer reliant on years-old (or decades-old) textbooks written for the average student, whoever that is. How Micro-credentials Support English learners . public schools are English Language Learners (ELLs). According to the National Center for Education Statistics , an average of 9 percent of students in U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last May, major textbook publisher Pearson indicated it was mulling a sale of the U.S. portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital curriculum and instructional materials. In November, it also divested its language-learning business, Wall Street English, for $100 million. billion (approximately US $6.3

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2025

Instantaneous Implementation and Impact Large print books offer an easily implementable intervention without requiring extensive training or curriculum changes. Evans highlighted a high school student from one of the studys focus groups who took his request one step further when he asked, Why arent all our textbooks in large print?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 17, 2018

Curriculum Companions (K-5 only) follow a tech professional as s/he teaches each lesson in the SL K-5 curriculum textbooks. Presented via video (10-15 minutes each), you can see how another teacher uses the curriculum and access additional resources like vocabulary and how-to videos. Language: English.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2020

What do educators think about the quality of the curriculum they teach? The K-12 curriculum market is “incredibly diverse,” says Jeff Seaman, director of Bay View Analytics (formerly known as Babson Survey Research Group), which conducted the survey. Then he checked by discipline, comparing math to science to English/language arts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2016

Curriculum Companion Wikis (K-5 only) follow a tech professional as s/he teaches each lesson in the SL K-5 curriculum textbooks. Presented via video (10-15 minutes each), you can ask questions, start a discussion with other teachers using the curriculum, and access additional resources. Language: English.

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